The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said Wednesday it would begin direct crude sales to refineries from March onwards, replacing the crude oil swap…
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Nigeria has opened a bid round covering 12 onshore and deepwater oil and gas blocks in its prolific Niger Delta Basin.
READ MOREUp to 20% of Nigeria's crude will be traded on the Lagos commodities exchange under a new government plan.
READ MOREThe Africa Energy Bank, a fund created to address gaps in oil and gas project finance in Africa, is on track to begin operations in H2.
READ MOREA second WTI oil cargo is on its way to Nigeria's recently commissioned 650,000-bpd Dangote Refinery.
READ MOREEmeka Ene, managing director of Oildata Energy Group, talks to The Energy Year about the Kwale Gas Gathering (KGG) project, which the company is currently helping to…
READ MORESegun Sowande, partner and head of energy and natural resources for KPMG in Nigeria, talks to The Energy Year about challenges in the Nigerian oil and gas industry and…
READ MOREOphir Energy signed a heads of terms agreement with oil services giant Schlumberger on its Fortuna floating LNG project, the UK oil and gas exploration company…
READ MORENiger aims to more than triple its oil production by 2018.
Output from the West African country stands at 20,000 barrels of oil per day. The government hopes to…
READ MOREThe Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps reported it had destroyed eight illegal refineries and seized 42 oil tankers used in smuggling black market oil to the…
READ MORENigeria’s Otakikpo field on the southeastern Niger delta began production on Saturday, Nigerian exploration and production company Lekoil reported in a company press…
READ MOREShell announced on Tuesday that it has re-opened two key pipelines in Nigeria after spending a few days shuttered when the company declared force majeure on August…
READ MOREA pipeline leak in Nigeria has caused Shell to declare force majeure on gas supplies, a company spokesperson said Thursday.
The oil major halted gas flow on the…
READ MORESimone Volpi, managing director of Intels Nigeria, talks to TOGY about the role logistics bases play in developing the country’s hydrocarbons industry and the impact…
READ MOREMuch of Nigeria’s pipeline infrastructure dates back to the 1960s, which affects the country’s ability to provide feedstock to power plants. With some of the…
READ MOREChevron has announced that it will sell its 40-percent stakes in two Nigerian shallow-water developments, Oil Mining Leases (OML) 86 and 88.
The sale of the Niger…
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